“We can continue to say to our girls as they grow into women, 'Come up here and scrunch under this glass ceiling with me.' Or we can say to them, 'Let me break this ceiling so when you come up here with me, we can stand up straight under the open sky.”

Joyce T. McFadden

Joyce T. McFadden - “We can continue to say to our girls...” 1

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